The actors behind Operation MiddleFloor are suspected to be aligned with Russian interests. Evidence points to a group of Russian-speaking individuals who have previously been linked to disinformation campaigns across Europe, including the 2023 NATO summit in Lithuania and the Spanish general elections

new disinformation campaign, dubbed “Operation MiddleFloor,” has been observed targeting Moldova ahead of its October elections.

https://research.checkpoint.com/2024/disinformation-campaign-moldova/

Identified by Check Point Research (CPR), the campaign, which began in August 2024, seeks to influence Moldova’s national referendum on European Union membership by fostering negative views of the EU and the country’s pro-European leadership.

Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms

#SocialMedia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313

Welcome to "the fun house"

Every day users casually scroll through an estimated 300 feet of newsfeed on social media–roughly the height of the Statue of Liberty. As they casually scroll through this content, they are forming beliefs about the state of the world as well as inferences about the beliefs of members of their own social network and community. But these inferences are often based on the most extreme voices.

@th3j35t3r its actually worse than just the normal 30 day free trial thingy

If you go for the deal, under the hurricane free 1 month trial, you can't return the equipment and cancel the contract you are automatically rolled into like the normal 1 month trial - customer's then need to keep paying the monthly subscription or a lump sum when cancelling subscription which is usually the full subscription price

@th3j35t3r @corlin @Alfred 😂😂😂

@stueytheround starting to think that group are Russian script kiddies whose country is invading Ukraine for more than 2 years is making false genocide claims and using that as an excuse to terrorize a non profit internet library, how ironic.

Cause "active measures" talking point here

Need more caffeine methinks 😆

Same group attacked UAE bank in July

DDoS cyberattack campaign averaged 4.5 million requests per second, putting the bank under attack 70% of the time.

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/pro-palestinian-actor-levels-six-day-ddos-on-uae-bank

They are a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group BlackMeta, also known as DarkMeta

"They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of Israel"

Eejits

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Claiming they are doing it to hurt the US because of Gaza is just sooooo stoopid while in fact they are hurting the people they claim to be helping

@ChumCugger yeah eejits that group are.

In fact they are harming the people they claim to be helping

@MLClark thanxs 😁

And ty for the heads-up sounds interesting 👍

Gotta love "time" and its coincidence 😆

September 2024, the digital library of internet sites Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31M records. The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes.

#CoSoSec

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.

The Justice Department today announced charges against a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for conspiring to conduct an Election Day terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/afghan-national-arrested-plotting-election-day-terrorist-attack-name-isis

@stueytheround "where some see chaos some see opportunity"

New customers is the opportunity

Sick individuals like him always claim they wanna help while grasping profit

@sazemisery full of hyperbolic bullshit he is

There’s also a comical logistical issue pointed out by The Register: You need to find a data connection to even order and activate the Starlink deal in the first place. “If you can get enough cellular signal to sign up now, you might wonder why you would wait weeks to be pulled into a paid-for satellite service.”

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There are other problems with Musk’s offer. The Register has published a story investigating the free Starlink deal and traveled to Boone, North Carolina to see how it’s been received by locals. They interviewed a resident named Kinney Baughman who wasn’t thrilled.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/elon_musks_free_starlink_hurricane_helene/

So, Musk and his "free" Starlink offer for Hurricane hit parts in the US 🤔

Catch is it ain't free at all, Upon inspection, the offer of a free month of Starlink service seems to be the type of deal you might give a new customer, for anyone interested in taking up the offer they still have to pay $400 for the dish, including tax & shipping, and they're automatically rolled into a $120 a month contract when the "free" month ends

Oh gangs of London is on #Netflix

Only seen 1st series of this - series 2 is available also 😁

Very violent and gruesome << if ya ain't seen it be warned >> i usually don't warn people but this show is friggin very violent and fuckin gruesome